Cruise - Day 4 (Juneau)

Day 4 was Tuesday, May 5th and we spent it in Alaska's capital city of Juneau. There wasn't a whole lot to do in Juneau. We bought some stamps and mailed some post cards we got in Ketchikan and then walked to the State Capitol Building. We walked around there for a while but there wasn't much to see. I was hoping to run into Sarah Palin but it didn't happen. After that we browsed some shops. There was this big tram that took people up the mountain but it was like $27 a person so we decided it wasn't worth it.

So this day we were supposed to go cruising right next to a glacier, the Sawyer Glacier to be exact. To get there we had to cruise up a narrow channel between the mountains. Now when I say narrow I don't mean super narrow, because it was still big enough to fit our ginormous ship and still have ample room on the sides for maneuvering. Still, we were out on our balcony taking in the scenery and the mountains were pretty darn close to us at times.

So as we were cruising up the channel we saw that ahead of us the channel was covered with a sheet of ice/snow for about a 50 yard stretch. Apparently the ship's myriad of instruments deduced that it was safe to plow through it. It was freaking awesome. It felt as though for a small period of time the ship was gliding across a big pond.

So after that we kept going up the channel and again up ahead of us we saw that the water was covered with a sheet of ice and snow, but this time we couldn't tell how far up the channel it lasted. Unfortunately they decided that this sheet was not safe to plow through and we had to turn around. So we did not make it to the Sawyer Glacier. Oh well.

So shortly after that Murray was doing another show up in the Spinnaker Lounge. This time he mostly did card tricks and had people come up and witness the tricks up close. He also showed everyone how to do a few simple tricks. One funny thing that happened was while he was talking somebody spotted what they thought was a whale out in the water and everybody jumped up out of their seats and ran over to the windows. Poor Murray, but he didn't seem to mind. He offered a free pack of cards to anyone who got a good picture of the whale. I didn't see any pictures and can't say with any degree of accuracy if there was any whale at all. By the way, I found another youtube video of Murray where he actually talks if anyone's interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGYEB6KKHSo

After Murray's show we went to the big show in the theater. It was called Band on the Run and was another performance by the singers/dancers that did the Music of the Night show on day two. This time they were doing disco songs from the 70's. I enjoyed this one more than the first because I knew more of the songs they performed. Again, they were talented but it wasn't as great as the other shows that went on during the whole week.

That's all for day four.